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LaVar Ball Extends His Feud W/ Donald Trump in Wild CNN Interview

LaVar Ball is still undefeated

On Monday night, LaVar Ball, the father of LA Laker rookie Lonzo Ball, appeared on CNN Tonight with Chris Cuomo.

As you would imagine, the moment was incredible.

Ball took to CNN to address his feud with President Donald Trump. (Welcome to 2017.) Of course LaVar Ball, who is one of the most effective promoters right now, used the opportunity to turn the interview into a moment (even plugging his Big Baller Brand in the process.) The main point of the interview? Ball isn’t saying thank you to Trump:

“I don’t have to go around saying ‘thank you’ to everybody. He didn’t call me. I didn’t shake his hand. He didn’t have to say nothin’, but I’m just sayin’. I have to know what somebody is doing before I say ‘thank you.’ I’m not just going to go around saying thank you.”

“He fessed up to it. … It was an impulse thing, a bad decision at a bad time, that’s all it was for an 18 year-old who never done anything wrong,” says LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball https://t.co/JtzyaF2lxN

“If you help, you shouldn’t have to say anything,” says LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball. “Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my son and let’s just stay in our lane” https://t.co/NxBpHYh7Nr

LaVar Ball, father of UCLA player LiAngelo Ball says he did more to help his son than President Trump: “I helped my son get out of (China) … I had some people that had boots on the ground that knew the situation” https://t.co/KiRQGVQrpc

LaVar Ball on why he didn’t thank the President for bringing his son, LiAngelo Ball, home: “I would’ve said thank you if he would’ve put him on his plane and took him home … there’s a lot of room on that plane” https://t.co/qyfUtyTDBHhttps://t.co/MKJx8nMO7g

LaVar’s son LiAngelo Ball and two of his UCLA basketball teammates were arrested for shoplifting in China earlier this month. The student athletes were all facing three to ten years in prison.

However, they were released and Trump very publicly took credit for it. LaVar downplayed the president’s involvement, which lead to a string of Trump tweets yesterday:

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!